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Doug Casey on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – Casey Research

Posted by M. C. on January 19, 2019

https://www.caseyresearch.com/casey-daily-dispatch/doug-casey-on-alexandria-ocasio-cortez

By Doug Casey

Justin’s note: America can’t stop talking about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC).

AOC, if you haven’t heard, is a 29-year-old democratic socialist. Earlier this month, she became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.

And that concerns me. I say this because her platform is every socialist’s dream. She wants Medicare to be free. She wants college education to be free. She wants to cancel student debt. She wants to hike the minimum wage to $15. And she wants to replace oil and gas with green energy by 2030.

Now, I realize these ideas might sound good to some people. But none of this would come free. It would require massive tax hikes and a lot more national debt. In short, she’s advocating for policies that often destroy entire economies.

Yet, she’s one of today’s most popular political figures…

Doug: Most likely she’s the future of the Democratic Party – and of the U.S. Why? She’s cute, vivacious, charming, different, outspoken, and has a plan to Make America Great Again. And she’s shrewd. She realized she could win by ringing doorbells in her district, where voter turnout was very low, and about 70% are non-white. There was zero motivation for residents to turn out for the tired, corrupt, old hack of a white man she ran against.

She’s certainly politically astute – but doesn’t seem very intelligent. In fact, she’s probably quite stupid. But let’s define the word stupid, otherwise, it’s just a meaningless pejorative – name-calling.

But in fact it doesn’t seem like she has a very high IQ. I suspect that if she took a standardized IQ test, she’d be someplace in the low end of the normal range. But that’s just conjecture on my part, entirely apart from the fact a high IQ doesn’t necessarily correlate with success. Besides, there are many kinds of intelligence – athletic, aesthetic, emotional, situational…

A high IQ can actually be a disadvantage in getting elected. Remember it’s a bell-shaped curve; the “average” person isn’t terribly smart, compounded by the fact half the population has an IQ of less than 100. And they’re suspicious of anyone who’s more than, say, 15 points smarter than they are.

However, there are better ways to define stupid than “a low score on an IQ test,” that apply to Alexandria. Stupid is the inability to not just predict the immediate and direct consequences of actions, but especially the indirect and delayed consequences of your actions.

She’s clearly unable to do that… Read the rest of this entry »

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EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Republicans’ Responsibility for Socialism’s Comeback

Posted by M. C. on September 18, 2018

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2018/09/republicans-responsibility-for.html

By Ron Paul

According to a recent Reuters/Ipsos survey, 70 percent of Americans, including about 50 percent of Republicans, support Medicare for all, the latest incarnation of single-payer health care. Republican support for a health plan labeled “Medicare for all” is not surprising considering that Republican
politicians support Medicare and that one of their attacks on Obamacare was that it would harm the program. Furthermore, the biggest expansion of Medicare since its creation — the Part D prescription drug program — occurred under a conservative president working with a conservative Congress.

Conservative Republicans do propose reforming Medicare to reduce its costs, but their proposals are always framed as “saving Medicare,” and most reform plans increase spending. Few conservative Republicans would dare advocate allowing young people to opt out of paying Medicare taxes in exchange for agreeing to forgo Medicare benefits.

Many conservative Republicans favor other government interventions into health care, including many features of Obamacare. In fact, Obamacare’s individual mandate originated as a conservative proposal and was once championed by many leading Republicans. Many other Republicans simply lack the courage to repeal Obamacare, so they say they only want to repeal the “unpopular” parts of the law. It would not be surprising if we soon heard conservatives and Republican politicians talk about defending Obamacare from supporters of socialized medicine. Read the rest of this entry »

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Gillum: Medicare for All Won’t Work in Florida Alone, We’d Need ‘Confederation of States’

Posted by M. C. on August 30, 2018

No, I can’t imagine it. Progressive states New York, California and Illinois are already on the financial ropes.

Andrew Gillum is a prototypical socialist enamored, economically ignorant, free stuff loving millennial.

Florida can’t pay for this progressive government instigated fiasco so Gillum wants these other cash strapped progressive states to chip in. No one can afford to pay for their own medicare, so how is everyone (everyone meaning taxpayers like you) supposed to help Florida? How is this supposed to work?

These Bernie wannabes can’t possibly have capability of original thought.

If there is any thought involved it would be intent on facilitating a Cloward-Piven driven government collapse.

Medicare: Is there such a thing as an upside down, inside out pyramid scheme?

https://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/08/29/gillum-medicare-for-all-wont-work-in-florida-alone-wed-need-confederation-of-states/

by Ian Hanchett

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Cuomo Primetime,” Tallahassee Mayor and Florida Democratic Gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum said that for Florida to do a Medicare for all system, “we would have to do it as a confederation of states. We could not do it by ourselves solely here in the state of Florida.”… Read the rest of this entry »

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The Big Question for Open Borders Bernie Sanders’ ‘Medicare for All’ Plan Is What if ‘All’ Includes the Whole World? — Aussie Conservative Blog

Posted by M. C. on September 18, 2017

In Australia, Britain and the United States, pro immigration advocates argue as ‘we are nations of immigrants,’ immigration should not be restricted by any means whatsoever. To state the painstakingly obvious, this mantra is illogical as all nations have experienced immigration at some point and yet, this absurd standard only applies to Western countries. Regardless, the primary issue…

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Obama To Pay States For Medicare Expansion-Don’t Take the Bait

Posted by M. C. on March 10, 2013

The government gets $1T further in debt each year. Why would it offer to pay states more to add to the medicare burden? I am willing to bet it would cost many trillions of dollars to cover the baby boomer generation. I normally take anything neocon warparty spokesman Jonah Goldberg says with a handful of salt but…today he quotes the HHS info director Gary Cohen as saying a $5B Obamacare pre-existing condition bridge really costs $40B. Goldberg quotes the GAO as putting the  75 year cost of “won’t add one dime” Obamacare at $6.2T.

“Free”, “government money” comes with strings attached. That is, of course, the whole idea. Take the “free money” and do as we say or face our badge and our guns.

Obama has no intention of reducing spending and intends to increase spending as much as possible. Ultimate control over our lives is the progressives’ end game.

Dependence on government for survival and squashing of resistance, of which gun control is a part, are the tools which get this job done. Read the rest of this entry »

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